Tuesday, March 25, 2025

A "special" review of my book "Game Design," with a twist (the book is NOT the point)

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  A special book “review” of my book  Game Design   [ Note. This was submitted as a column for “Worlds of Design” on enworld.org. I’ve w...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2025

A Good Example of Simplifying Wargame Play

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  A Good Example of Simplifying Wargame Play   I wrote this in 2022, and put it aside thinking I might add to it, perhaps playing the so...
Monday, October 21, 2024

What “Should” Be in an RPG Design Book

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  What “Should” Be in an RPG Design Book   This is an unusual piece because I want to talk about what “should” be in an RPG design book....
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Tuesday, July 02, 2024

Mediterranean Convoy - a complete minimalist game

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 Mediterranean Convoy About 10 years ago I whipped up this game for a minimalist game contest. 21 pieces were the big constraint. It resulte...
Friday, March 22, 2024

Play Balance in Britannia and Duel Britannia

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Play balance - that is, ensuring that each player has an equal chance of succeeding - is an ideal in games that it can be difficult to achie...
Friday, October 27, 2023

Review of book The Scythian Empire: Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China

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 I recently read Christopher I. Beckwith The Scythian Empire: Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China, Prin...
Monday, October 09, 2023

GrogCon 2023 Report (Old School D&D Convention)

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(Photos below)  Most of what I have to say about games goes into videos on my YouTube “Game Design” channel [ http://youtube.com/LewGameDesi...
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Monday, August 28, 2023

Recently in my (free) "Game Design" YouTube channel:

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 Align the way to succeed with the "fun" way to play in a game design    https://youtu.be/LGk16bENW5I   3:02     Some players will...
Saturday, October 22, 2022

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 A while ago, Sam Bennett wrote to me about my Barroom Brawl convention scenario for D&D that appeared long ago in White Dwarf. He has c...
Friday, March 04, 2022

What were the real World Wars?

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 Wars are sometimes name for odd reasons. What we call World War I was called the Great War before World War II occurred. Yet some people wo...
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Monday, August 02, 2021

Compendium of Britannia-like Games, Published and Unpublished

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  Compendium of Britannia-like Games, Published and Unpublished A listing and description   This is edited and revised from the transcri...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Deconstructing Diplomacy

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(Originally appeared in Diplomacy World #154, the free flagship magazine of the Diplomacy-playing hobby) The following is edited and modifie...